Easygoing Guide to Natural Florida: Central Florida, Volume 2

by Douglas Waitley, Frank Lohan (Illustrator)

Overview

Author Douglas Waitley invites you to step out of the air-conditioned shopping malls and crowded amusement parks and into Natural Florida. Reveals how to enjoy nature without discomfort.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781561646586
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/01/2008
Series:	Easygoing Guide to Natural Florida , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Douglas Waitley is the author of nineteen books on Americana, ranging in subject matter from regional histories to accounts of the era of steam locomotives. He wrote two volumes of Easygoing Guide to Natural Florida and three volumes of Best Backroads of Florida, also published by Pineapple Press.

Table of Contents

Preface     v
Map: The General Setting     1
The St. Johns Watershed
Introduction to Part One     3
Map: The Routes of Part One     4
Water Worlds     5
The Orlando Wetlands     5
Merritt Island Black Point Nature Drive     17
Jolly Gator Fish Camp     26
Airboating on the St. Johns     28
Enchanted Waters     32
Wekiwa Springs State Park     35
Kelly Park and Rock Springs     44
Bear Tunnels     48
Seminole State Forest     51
The Wekiva Falls Cruise     52
Rivers, Springs, and Manatees     59
Gemini Springs     61
Highbanks on the St. Johns     67
The Manatees of Blue Spring State Park     70
Cruising the St. Johns     79
The Big Scrub     86
The Ocala National Forest     89
Juniper Springs     90
Sand Pine Country     93
Gator Danger     98
Out on Yearling Trail     101
Scrub Jays and Gopher Tortoises     102
The River and the Ridge     108
The Bitter Rodman Reservoir Controversy     110
Mysterious Lake Kerr     118
The Pleasures of the Longleaf Pine Forest     119
Moss Bluff Lock and Dam     127
The Long Valley     131
The Emeralda Marsh     132
The Dora Canal     142
Following Palatlakaha Creek     150
Cypress Cove     152
Lake Louisa State Park     158
The Domain of Swiftmud
Introduction to Part Two     160
Map: The Routes of Part Two-Southern Portion     161
A Swamp, A River, And a Beach     162
The Green Swamp     163
Zephyrhills Spring Water     171
Hillsborough River State Park     173
The Tampa Reservoir     178
Fort DeSoto Park     181
Map: The Routes of Part Two-Northern Portion     190
The Nature Coast     191
Chassahowitzka and the Whooping Cranes     192
The Fish Bowl at Homosassa Springs     195
Into The Salt Marsh on the Ozello Trail     198
Cruising the Crystal River     203
Cedar Key     211
A Dissolving Land     219
The Devil's Millhopper     220
San Felasco Hammock     224
Kanapaha Botanical Gardens      224
Paynes Prairie     228
Mike Roess Gold Head Branch     237
Ravine State Gardens     241
Bibliography     246
Index     249